Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings : Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Empires and Emotions -- Approaching Emotions in History -- Coming to Terms with 'Panic' -- The Contributions -- Notes -- References -- Part I: The Health of Body and Mind -- Chapter 2: Minds in Crisis: Medico-moral Theories of Disorder in the Late Colonial World -- I: Tropical Neurasthenia -- II: Ethnopsychiatry -- III: The Colonial Condition -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Poison Panics of British India -- Defining Poison Panics -- Europeans' Poison Fears -- The State Response to Poison Panics -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The Settler's Demise: Decolonization and Mental Breakdown in 1950s Kenya -- Mau Mau Fears -- Colonial lives -- The Settler's Demise -- Weakness and the end of empire -- Notes -- References -- Published Sources -- Part II: Imperial Panics and Discursive Responses -- Chapter 5: Mass-Mediated Panic in the British Empire? Shyamji Krishnavarma's 'Scientific Terrorism' and the 'London Outrage', 1909 -- Introduction -- The Origins of Political 'Terrorism' in Colonial India and the Making of a 'Liberal Revolutionary' -- The Theory of Violence: Krishnavarma's 'Scientific Terrorism' -- The Practice of Violence: The 'London Outrage' and the Prose of Counter-terrorism64 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: The Art of Panicking Quietly: British Expatriate Responses to 'Terrorist Outrages' in India, 1912-33 -- Introduction: Violence and Sovereignty -- From a Spot of 'Political Trouble' to 'Outrage!': Responses to Anti-colonial Violence -- Age Chalo: Carry On -- Inter-war 'Actions' and Reaction -- Knowing 'Terrorism' -- 'The Most Dastardly Outrage' -- Panic, the Press and Proper Conduct -- Notes -- References -- British Library -- Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

National Archives of India, New Delhi -- Nehru Memorial Museum &amp -- Library, New Delhi -- Newspapers -- Government Publications -- Secondary Sources -- Internet -- Chapter 7: Mirrors of Violence: Inter-racial Sex, Colonial Anxieties and Disciplining the Body of the Indian Soldier During the First World War -- Eating Mathai in Brighton: Traversing Taboos and the Emergence of the 'Sex Problem' -- 'Could a Man Be So Perverted to Lose His Religion for the Sake of a Woman?': The Mirroring of a Colonialist Neurosis -- Conclusion: Mirrors of Violence -- Notes -- References -- Unpublished Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part III: Practical and Institutional Counter-measures -- Chapter 8: Colonial Panics Big and Small in the British Empire (1865-1907) -- Natal's Black Rape Scare of the 1870s -- Panic over Black Baptist Preachers before and after the Morant Bay 'Rebellion' of 1865 -- The Ethiopian Menace in Natal, 1900-07 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Archives -- Published Sources -- Chapter 9: Imperial Fears and Transnational Policing in Europe: The 'German Problem' and the British and French Surveillance of Anti-colonialists in Exile, 1904-1939 -- Alliances between Germans and Anti-colonialists before and during the First World War (1904-18) -- The 'Germano-Bolshevik Threat' (1918-25) -- Western Fears of Alliances between Communist Germans and Anti-colonialists (1925-33) -- The Nazi Period (1933-39) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Published Sources -- Chapter 10: Repertoires of European Panic and Indigenous Recaptures in Late Colonial Indonesia -- The Setting -- Anxiety, Fear and Panic in Colonial Situations -- Frontiers of Violence Producing European Panic -- Experiencing Colonial Battle -- Violence in the Workplace -- European Angst for Indonesian Recaptures -- External Threats and Further European Anxieties.

Concluding Observations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: 'The Swiss of All People!' Politics of Embarrassment and Dutch Imperialism around 1900 -- Dwarfs in a Game of Giants: The Netherlands in the Imperial World -- Celebes: Setting the Stage -- Crises in Celebes and 'a Great Cry' in the Newspapers -- Scholars: 'Better the Sons of One's Own Fatherland' -- Missionaries: 'Open the Eyes of the Government to Deficiencies on Celebes' -- The Officials and the Sarasins: 'Amice!' -- The Rajas -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Literature -- -- Part IV: 'Knowledge' and 'Ignorance' -- Chapter 12: Arrested Circulation: Catholic Missionaries, Anthropological Knowledge and the Politics of Cultural Difference in Imperial Germany, 1880-1914 -- Introduction1 -- Uncovering the 'Nature' of Unyago -- Things Fall Apart? The Betrayal of a Secret and its Consequences in the Mission Field -- The Inner Circle: Keeping the Intimate Secret -- Intimacy and the Moral Corset of Nineteenth-­Century Catholicism -- Transferring the Unspeakable? Resonances in the Political Debates of the Metropole -- Consequences for Scientific Anthropology: Resonance or Absorption? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13: 'The Strangest Problem': Daniel Wilberforce, the Human Leopards Panic and the Special Court in Sierra Leone -- Daniel Wilberforce: Early Life and Missionary Hopes -- The 1898 Hut Tax War -- Collaboration, Conspiracy and Cannibals (1903-06) -- The Special Court (1912) -- Cannibalism and Consumption -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Archives -- Published Sources -- Chapter 14: Critical Mass: Colonial Crowds and Contagious Panics in 1890s Hong Kong and Bombay -- Introduction: 'Dis-Orientation' -- Empire in the 'Era of the Crowd' -- Hong Kong: Panic and the Chinese Mob -- Bombay: Microbes and Masses -- Conclusion: Biology and the Socio-pathology of Panic -- Notes.

References -- Index.

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